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Analogue Slop
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Analogue Slop is where two music industry lifers revisit the music press of their youth, which in our case is the nineties, and for Season 1 is the NME and Melody Maker..
Every week we explore artists we discovered as wide-eyed teenagers only to disown as sneering twenty somethings.
Now, unshackled from hipster baggage, we dive deep into how music and the people who make it were served up before anyone knew what an attention economy was.
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July 1999 Part 1 - Manic Street Preachers, Star Wars, Festival Season
May 600:58:16Tap to summarizeIn which the Manic Street Preachers attempt to survive peak overexposure, Melody Maker desperately tries to make festival season feel culturally decisive, and Star Wars crosses the invisible line between treasured generational reference point and permanently monetised corporate property.
Transcribe →October 1992 Part 2 - Sonic Youth, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Eazy-E
Apr 2900:48:58Tap to summarizeIn which Eazy-E sues pretty much everyone in sight, we trace the origin story of Deep Cover (and its many afterlives), and a small news item quietly reroutes the entire future of Death Row, Interscope and several billion dollars’ worth of hip hop history.Elsewhere, Sonic Youth attempt to weaponise the alternative nation moment with Youth Against Fascism — a major label push that mistakes cultural weight for crossover potential, and raises the eternal question of whether some bands are simply too cool (or too dissonant) to ever properly land.
Transcribe →October 1992 Part 1 - Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Primal Scream & Sinead O'Connor
Apr 2201:22:51Tap to summarizeIn which we trace a week where Nirvana quietly extend the Nevermind moment with Incesticide (outtakes, victory laps and all), Primal Scream attempt to stretch Screamadelica into an arena-sized endgame for striking miners, and Bob Dylan is celebrated, second-guessed and sporadically coherent at a sprawling Madison Square Garden tribute that may or may not be for him.Elsewhere, Sinéad O’Connor collides head-on with the limits of acceptable dissent, the UK music press attempts to decide who gets to be radical (and how), and we revisit a moment where rebellion starts to look suspiciously well-behaved.Plus: techno pagan sound systems, proto-post-rock glimpses, Madchester comedowns, and one extremely bitter letter writer.
Transcribe →July 1998 Part 2 - Run The Jewels (???), Company Flow, Grand Royal, Sean Lennon
Apr 1500:55:17Tap to summarizeIn which we dutifully genuflect at the altar of Company Flow’s “proper rap” canonisation (while quietly side-eyeing the syllabus), trace the lineage through Run the Jewels’ stadium-sized righteousness and rummage around Grand Royal’s boutique chaos by revisiting late-90s music press soft target Sean Lennon
Transcribe →July 1998 Part 1 - (more) Beastie Boys, Mogwai, Glastonbury, Liam Gallagher
Apr 801:19:35Tap to summarizeIn which we tiptoe around Glastonbury's filth, tackle The Beastie Boys Hello Nasty era in a level of detail bordering on the forensic, and ponder the relative levels of 'Post' and 'Rock' in a nascent Mogwai's journey.
Transcribe →October 1990 Part 2 - Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Bootlegging
Apr 100:43:57Tap to summarizeIn which the 2nd Beatle lawyers up (against his fanbase), the sun sets on the Pet Shop Boys imperial phase and slide into the moral maze that is bootlegging, 1990 style.
Transcribe →October 1990 Part 1 - Pixies, Paul Simon, Rick Rubin, House of Love
Mar 2501:10:15Tap to summarizeIn which we attempt to make sense of Paaul Simon's career via Graceland follow up LP Call of the Saints, observe the House Of Love's wobbly renovation & check in on what Pixies and Rick Rubin are up to
Transcribe →July 1993 Part 2 - Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Elastica
Mar 1801:02:00Tap to summarizeIn which we consider DJ Muggs imperial phase, House of Pain's bad club ubiquity, Funkdoobiest's anonymity, The Trouble With Rap Lyrics 1993 style vs where we land in 2026, and - for some light relief - Elastica's Melody Maker debut
Transcribe →July 1993 Part 1 - Rage Against The Machine, Orbital, One Dove, Andrew Weatherall
Mar 1101:00:01Tap to summarizeIn which Rage Against The Machine rage against the PMRC, Orbital are early to the party & One Dove and Weatherall lay the foundations for a 21st century myth
Transcribe →December 1997 - Joy Division, Five, The Propellerheads & Catch
Mar 401:33:55Tap to summarizeIn which we establish year zero for the Post-Punk revival, watch the Big Beat shark leave the water and are consumed in the flames of the New Pop Explosion
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